Creativity sometimes comes out in different and unexpected forms that surprise us. This is the case with The Lady of the House quilt. I found myself wanting to write about a topic that is dear to me, but the creative …
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Personal Transformation
Between The Darkest Night And The Coming Light
Bud and Massimilla HarrisThe Future Is in Our Hands
Bud and Massimilla Harris A few nights ago, I was lying in bed reading Miguel Serrano’s book, C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse. The book includes a letter that startled me in which Dr. Jung writes that, “…the world we live in is full …
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Announcing Dr. Bud Harris’ Newest Book: Facing the Apocalypse
Bud and Massimilla HarrisFacing the Apocalypse: A Call for Outrageous Courage, Love, and Compassion From the Foreword of Facing the Apocalypse: Over a decade ago I opened a lecture I was giving by recounting a dream I had during a crisis period in …
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Changing Our Fate
Bud and Massimilla HarrisAs we wander on these journeys, we find that just like in the stories, we often begin in shadowy places, dark forests of the heart or lonely castles that reflect some of the gloomiest wounded and denied places within the kingdom of ourselves. Along the way, we will meet monsters, strange animals (even talking ones), and extraordinary people like dwarfs, witches, beggars, old hags, and even the devil. Some of these figures are helpful; others try to hinder us or even destroy us. But if we want to follow the maps laid out by these stories and to be transported by the stories, we must remember to embrace the world of metaphor because, in reality, the story is within us.
A Map for the Journey
Bud and Massimilla HarrisMen Turned to Stone: Confronting Shame
Bud and Massimilla HarrisThe Reality of Medusaʼs Myth
Bud and Massimilla HarrisEvery myth represents a treasure-house of wisdom regarding the world and our personality. And, the way to these treasures is difficult and tangled. All too often when it seems like the mythic map is clear, we suddenly discover that there is a whole new level of the myth before us. Myths are meant to take us beyond ourselves, beyond the ways we have looked at life and particularly at our difficulties and struggles.
Power, Reality, the Feminine, and Projections
Bud and Massimilla HarrisFrom Paralysis to Full Vitality: The Myth of Medusa
Bud and Massimilla HarrisThe myth of Medusa is an extraordinary mythic story from our collective past. What it can tell us today is as sacred as any religious parable. This myth is a symbolic story of how the patriarchy has abused and banished the feminine, how it can be redeemed, and the tremendous healing and instinctual power that can be freed in this process.